Must do shorter, faster posts. That last one took way too many hours. Here: Get the pdf Get Dance of the Infidels | get Hank by Hank Mobley Get I’ll Never Smile Again | get […]
Category: be-bop
Different values
I usually keep just one CD in my car for days or occasionally weeks at a time- recently for me it’s been Don Cherry’s Art Deco, an old favorite that had been languishing in the […]
Podcast – Episode 4: Charlie Parker heads
Today’s podcast is a selection of practice loops made from the heads of well-known Charlie Parker tunes: Billie’s Bounce Yardbird Suite Donna Lee Cheryl Quasimodo Scrapple from the Apple Au Privave Crazeology (actually by Bud […]
Go now
Yikes, another patch of light posting, as I’ve been busy with other projects. Until I can get something posted later in the day, get your rear over to Jon McCaslin’s blog to watch and more […]
Source tunes for Chapin
Thanks to my man Ed Pierce and the Sep. 1994 issue of Modern Drummer, here (well, after the break) are the source tunes for the long exercises in Jim Chapin’s Advanced Techniques. As you’ll see, […]
Kenny Clarke on the invention of the ride cymbal
…and modern drumming in general, excerpted from Ed Thigpen’s Kenny Clarke interview in the Feb. 1984 Modern Drummer. I originally posted this last year on the Drummerworld.com forum. From Thigpen’s introduction: It’s understandably difficult for […]